| A | B |
|---|
| characterization | the act of creating or describing a character |
| climax | the highest point of interest or suspense in the story |
| dialogue | conversation involving two or more people or characters |
| first-person point of view | the narrator takes a part in the action and refers to himself using words such as I and we |
| image | language that creates a concrete representation of an object or an experience; a vivid mental picture created in the reader's mind by that language |
| imagery | the images in a literary work when considered altogether |
| inciting incident | the event that introduces the central conflict |
| irony | a difference between appearance and reality |
| narration | writing that tells a story, either true or invented, about an event or sequence of events |
| plot | sequence of events that introduce, develop, and resolve a conflict in a literary work |
| point of view | the vantage point from which a story is told |
| resolution | the point at which the central conflict is ended |
| speaker | the voice that narrates a poem |
| theme | a central idea in a literary work |
| tone | a writer's or speaker's attitude toward the subject or the reader |
